Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But when the church breaks through this isolation it has created a potential for growth . |
2 | In the last few months it has introduced a mortgage rescue package and plans to use empty flats above shops in a further bit to get waiting lists down . |
3 | My Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm , I submitted and this is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , in the British Rail Board both the act and the central fund byelaw should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference , unless strong evidence of invalidity is , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
4 | My Lord making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm I submitted and it is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , the thicken in the board , both the act and the central fund by the law should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference unless strong evidence of invalidity is produced , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
5 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
6 | Smith and Efford will both have to win if Labour is to secure the 326 seats it needs to form a Government with an overall majority . |
7 | ‘ Since INR1 has been made off-limits to baby-boomers it has become a lot less attractive , ’ says Tim Schoonmaker , head of radio at EMAP , a magazine publisher once expected to bid . |
8 | It thinks in years , not months or weeks : the three or four years it takes to reach a degree ; the similar or longer period needed for a doctorate ; the intellectual shifts that occur over decades , even centuries . |
9 | That 's right and and to er er sort of fogies of my age it does seem a bit strange but these days the video and the recording have got to go together have n't they ? |
10 | In a post-imperial age it has shown a vitality more than sufficient to live to itself . |
11 | ‘ In many ways it has become a victim of its own success . |
12 | In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level . |
13 | While this does not necessarily require additional people it does require a determination to use more effectively those that are available ( see part II ) . |
14 | Out of control it threatens to undermine a game dependent on the good offices of onlookers . |
15 | For a start it 's got a village atmosphere which I must say we find rather agreeable . |
16 | now let's erm just go on to something perhaps that 's more to the point , you were asked on a number occasions er what information was given and so for and when , er can you see in fact on some of these documents that the brochures are indeed dated ? , just look at er please , you can see that it 's a printed brochure it 's got a number of er additions and then we look at page thirty seven boldly state you have that as twenty sixth March eighty five , do n't you ? |
17 | In the past it has expressed an interest in taking on Cypress ' SuperSparc-compatible part ( UX No 408 ) . |
18 | In a sense it has become a victim of its own success , for the company is still criticised for the derelict land that remains . |
19 | Although this is bought through a massive number of connections it seems to have a number of advantages over previously mentioned strategies : |
20 | In which case it has to find a way of lowering expectations of the public good , limiting damage by the pursuit of private interest , building a different notion of good citizenship and public virtue out of that private interest . |
21 | The activities it supports include a programme of over 90 day and evening classes covering topics varying from Basic Reading , Writing and Number skills to G.C.S.E. Greek , from Aromatherapy to Word Processing . |
22 | which is something like speed , only it 's a bit it 's got a direction . |
23 | In a number of cases it has raised a question about a UK company passing into the control of an overseas company . |
24 | In particular , since in several cases it seems to involve a conflict of time reference , we must note that what is involved is not the same as a superficially rather similar phenomenon which was the subject of a useful discussion by Bach ( 1968 ) — all the more so because some of his examples are ambiguous and could also be covered by this case . |
25 | ‘ Ethical ’ because fulfilling this function it seeks to follow a method which has the ethics of impartiality embodied in it , being the ultimate foundation of its bindingness : the ethical imperative of securing a morally justified indeed morally overriding goal in a morally acceptable manner . |
26 | In the box it 's got a handle . |
27 | Freedom is valuable and is valued by the public as an end in itself , but as a means to an end it has proved a failure . |
28 | You see the way it 's done a trace there , sometimes it 'll |
29 | Each year it has produced a report setting out the state of the education service , and each year Ministers have treated that report as though it were a piece of stinking fish . |
30 | The government , too , has a responsibility , as through the Common Agricultural Policy of price support system it has guaranteed a market for cereals and encouraged intensive production . |